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Professor Doug Jerolmack and colleagues report the first-ever method to quantitatively estimate the transport distance of river pebbles from their shape alone
While new evidence suggests that Mars may harbor a tiny amount of liquid water, it exists today as a largely cold and arid…
Professor Hermann Pfefferkorn awarded honorary doctorate
Hermann Pfefferkorn was awarded an honorary doctorate from the Universidad Ricardo Palma in Lima for his outstanding work in…
Lightning Reshapes Rocks at the Atomic Level, EES Study Finds
Using extremely high-resolution microscopy, Reto Gieré, professor and chair of the Department of Earth and Environmental…
PhD alum Brandon Hedrick helps uncover the mystery of how fossils came to rest in National Geographic article
Brandon Hedrick offers two alternate possibilities on how a 120-million-year-old fossil from northeastern China appears to…
New Dinosaur’s Keen Nose Made it a Formidable Predator, EES PhD student Steve Jasinski Finds
Steven Jasinski, a doctoral student in the School of Arts & Sciences' Department of Earth and Environmental Science at…
Fast Family - Lecturer Sally Willig recalls her experience competing at the Penn Relays
Sally Willig, who earned her Ph.D. from the University of Pennsylvania in 1988 and is now a lecturer in the Penn’s Master of…
EES Students Win GSA Student Research Grants
Congratulations to PhD sutdents Emma Harrison, Rachel Valletta, and Kara Ludwig for being awarded GSA student research…
Soil Kitchen 2015
Do you wonder... what's in our soil? Join us for this free soil testing event. Bring your dried and homogenized soil sample…
Geophysicists study creep and flow of rivers
Douglas Jerolmack, Morgane Houssais, Carlos Ortiz http://www.upenn.edu/pennnews/current/2015-03-12/latest-news/geophysicists…
Penn Senior Emma Schad Investigates the Politics of Philadelphia’s Parks
Penn Senior Emma Schad Investigates the Politics of Philadelphia’s Parks Growing up in Philadelphia, University of…